With the release out this week in the US and next in the UK, we see more and more new reviews. You can find earlier reviews from last year’s TIFF here (professional reviews including Hollywoodreporter, Variety & Screen Daily reviews) and here (more private blogs etc), and SXSW’s are here. New Yorker Huffington Post Backstage Orlando Sentinel New York Observer New [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Finally news about the US distribution for M&OW came out. As previously stated, the film will open 25 November 2009 in the US (limited in NY & LA) and then expand after. I guess having the special Zac-focused trailer of Me and Orson Welles on the 17 Again DVD/Blu-ray makes now even more sense seeing that [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Me and Orson Welles will screen at two film festivals in September and October: At the Deauville American Film Festival in France: 4 – 13 September 2009 At the Woodstock Film Festival in the US: 30 September – 4 October 2009 Currently there is no information available who from the cast or crew will attend or if Zac [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, August 15, 2009
Zac Efron’s film Me and Orson Welles finally got a US release date! Courtesy of EW’s fall movie preview the film will be released in the US on 25 November 2009! Update: According to an interview with Richard Linklater at the Austin premiere of Extract, the movie will open in New York and Los Angeles on [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Screen Daily reported on 18 June 2009 that CinemaNX partnered with the theather chain Vue Entertainment and will release some of their movies directly through the chain bypassing a traditional distributor in the UK. The first movie using this model will be Me and Orson Welles. In the meantime the release date has been set for [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 10, 2009
This is obviously a bit late but with the M&OW teaser trailer out, here are the reviews from the professional sites and media outlets the movie got at TIFF08 last year: LA Times, The Big Picture The Hollywoodreporter Screen Daily Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert Variety, Thompson on Hollywood Variety ComingSoon.net CinemaBlend FirstShowing Time Out Chicago AICN Boston Globe Cleveland.com/The Plain Dealer Cinematical moviefone Entertainment Weekly Chud Hollywood Elsewhere Collider AV Club Time Out New York LA Weekly The [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 10, 2009
Here is the second post with reviews from Me and Orson Welles coming out of TIFF 2008. These reviews are all from private blogs etc, not professional critics. In that respect it’s important to keep in mind that many of them are not trying/claiming to give a fair, balanced or objective review; they are personal [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 10, 2009
Me and Orson Welles had been screened at SXSW 2009 in March 2009 as mystery screening, ie people showed up without knowing which movie they are going to see until it started. Considering that Austin is Richard Linklater’s hometown many people suspected that it’s going to be M&OW though. There have been a bunch of reviews [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, September 6, 2008
Once again, I haven’t been updating the blog as I wanted… so I’ll be trying to play catch up – again. To start things off, the very basics about last night’s premiere of Me and Orson Welles at the Toronto International Film Festival. There were many articles leading up to the premiere indicating high hopes for [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 7, 2008
I still have to do some catching up on “M&OW” but thought I’ll post at least the new stuff so I won’t get further behind. There is a new article in The Providence (7 July 2008) with James Tupper which has a reasonable part about Me and Orson Welles. Here are the relevant sections:
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